Reminds me of a pasta-making experiment from the Gurgaon days, when I happily added some indian spice (chaat masala probably) to standard arrabiata sauce. After eating which, J commented "This is not pasta, it's basta".
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P.S.: basta! (rhymes with pasta) is Italian for 'enough!' ... somewhat like our Hindi 'bas!'
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Hahahah at home mom ads dhaniya powder lol it so kills the italian-ness of the dish :)
Hi Hanisha,
The word BASTA waves the same meaning in Tagalog as well, “Enough”. I think it is originally Spanish word adopted by many languages. Some half century ago Spanish was an official language of Philippines but was not spoken by majority of population. There are many Spanish words adopted in Tagalog.
In Hindi BASTA stands for “bag”. I have viewed some of your snaps with woollen embroidery BASTA identifying very ancient and rich Sindhi culture.
Your blogs are much prominent and meaningful to read. Please keep on writing!
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anon: thanks for the info abt spanish/filipino, etc. Also, a) the hindi basta doesnt rhyme with pasta; b) I don't have a sindhi bag, or anything from sind, so where did you see this snap? :)
True, it does not rhyme so. Have you noticed the majority of Hindi words having ‘T’ sound like what we call tey tara (star) on the contrary English words sound like tay Tomato. There is no letter rhyming tay Tomato in Arabic alphabet; instead they use tey taara. That’s why native Arabs can’t speak better English.
I viewed your photo album at Orkut. In some of snaps you are carrying similar class of bag.
Up to year 1989, Sindh was spelled Sind. Later on in year 1990 through some amendments from provincial and national assemblies its spelling was changed to Sindh. There are still some historical places/cultural centres holding the old spelled name (Sind).
Are you really 27 years old? You look much mature in your writing. Oh John! It is really wonderful!!! (here John stands for GOD)
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